Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery – Endless Spells: Malevolent Maelstrom

Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery - Endless Spells: Malevolent Maelstrom

With the advent of Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery challenge rolling around again, I plucked this piece off the painting desk, buried in a pile of random things and decided to get it finished.

Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery - Endless Spells: Malevolent Maelstrom

I’d given it a couple of thinned coats of Contrast previously, a greeny-blue of some sort on the ball and a bluey-green on the “flames and smoke”.

Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery - Endless Spells: Malevolent Maelstrom

I took a look at the painted example of GW’s on their website and saw that they’d gone for essentially green and purple with their own scheme.

Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery - Endless Spells: Malevolent Maelstrom

With that, I got some greens and purple paints and had a bit of a play with turning them into glazes of varying strengths and layering them over the contrast base to achieve something a little stronger than the typical contrast-only look. It was actually pretty relaxing in a lot of ways, and by the following afternoon (paint a bit, leave it to dry, do other things, come back later) the model just needed basing.

Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery - Endless Spells: Malevolent Maelstrom

It kinda feels like I’m close to the end of this set, but when checking out the GW page for the box, it looks like I actually still have another 7 pieces still to build or paint – so 10 down, 7 more to go! Maybe I’ll get another one or two done before the Season of Scenery is done…

Realm of Chaos – Citadel Brayherd Beastmen Gors

Realm of Chaos - Citadel Brayherd Beastmen Gors

It’s been some time since I last completed any Beastmen. Too long, I’d say. So following last month’s Chaos Warhounds, I decided to get some more of the actual Beastie McBeastmen painted, and so had a root around in the twelve tubs I keep under Marounda’s computer desk for these – a sextuplet of “Rescue” models that I had purchased secondhand off somone at some indeterminate pont in the past.

Realm of Chaos - Citadel Brayherd Beastmen Gors

These ones I had rebased, cleaned up (a bit – I found more claening that was needed), clipped off their square based and even spray primed Beasty Brown. And then left them sitting there for who-knows-how-many months until I decided to pluck them out a few days ago.

Realm of Chaos - Citadel Brayherd Beastmen Gors

For the paint, I more-or-less followed the same scheme that I used last time I painted some models for this little force. I’m not at all fussed that the skin-fur on these is different to the last batch(es) – I actually prefer it that was as it gives a little bit of variation between the individuals once they’re all mixed together while keeping them looking overall unified.

Realm of Chaos - Citadel Brayherd Beastmen Gors

I enjoyed the freehand on the banner, cribbing the overall iconography from the battletome, but turning the skull into the centre of a chaos star in a move that I’m almost totaly sure than nobody else has ever done in history, and then copying some runes from that Runestone that I really need to knuckle down and complete…

Realm of Chaos - Citadel Brayherd Beastmen Gors

What’s next for the Beastmen then? Well, not more of these Gors anytime soon, I can tell you that much. Next month is Monster May-Hem (hopefully) so that might offer a suggestion as to my intent. On Gors, however – I did pick the final 11 other (unbroken) plastic “rescue models” out of my “Beastmen” box, and I intend to clean them up, rebase them and then give them a base-coat spray so that the next time I become interesed in doing some more Beastmen, almost all of the friction between inspiration and actually getting to the painting painting will be pre-taken care of…

Realm of Chaos - Citadel Brayherd Beastmen Gors

After I paint those, I’ll be done with this kind of “quick and easy” work on rescue model beastmen and I can get back to the metals that I care about a lot more…